what's the best non-contemporary song you've heard this year?

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for me 'inbetweenies' by ian dury of all people.
can't believe i've lived 31 years without hearing this.

when i asked the chap who was playing it which of ian dury's albums i should check out first, he said 'all of them'.

― piscesboy, Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Dr. John - Mama Roux

― Jack L., Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Nacht und Nebel - Beats of Love

― the wedding sinner, Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (I Just Wanna Be Your)

― snowballing (snowballing), Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

The Nugrape Twins "I Got Your Ice Cold NuGrape" a soda pop jingle from 1926. So great.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 20 November 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Jackson Sisters - "Miracle"

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 20 November 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Maybe, Bobby Valentin - "El Muneco De La Ciudad." So much of the music I am listening to for the first time is not contemporary.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 20 November 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Not really a 'song' as such, but I heard Vapourspace: Gravitational Arch of 10 for the first time this year.

― Yawn (Wintermute), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Jackson Sisters - "Miracle"
-- deej.. (clublonel...), November 20th, 2005.

killer!

― piscesboy, Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

The "Fanta" song.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=237WH7QUNXU61024L1OSGF0LDS

Beautiful Gordon Lightfoot

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

very tough call - at the moment I would say Mel Britt - "She'll Come Running"

― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

"...Back"

― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 20 November 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't know about best, but Television "Glory" sticks out.

― 'Twan (miccio), Sunday, 20 November 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

lou rawls "(how do i say) i don't love you anymore"

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 21 November 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

"Hangman" by John Jacob Niles

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 21 November 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

The Blue Things - "Dollhouse"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 21 November 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

"Touch Me Baby" - Myrna Hague

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 21 November 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (I Just Wanna Be Your)

Ha, this might be my answer, too. It's up there, at least.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 November 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

quite possibly "les fleurs" by minnie riperton (that CHORUS!)

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 21 November 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

― lf, Monday, 21 November 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

of songs that were newly reissued that I hadn't heard before, probably either the Love Joys' "Sweet Feelings" from the Wackies Reggae Goodies twofer, or T. Rex's "Cadilac" (that Wax Company singles thing was just put out domestically by Rhino, first time I'd heard it)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

that jackson sisters track IS killer! i haven't heard it in a couple of years, but it was on all my mix cds for a while.

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

Judee Sill "The Kiss"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

i think my pick is al stewart's "in brooklyn," which i hadn't heard before this year.

http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0D0ZY2XD03JFT09KF6W8QHZ4GK

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

"Hollywood Flashback" - Amanda Lear

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (I Just Wanna Be Your)

Ha, this might be my answer, too. It's up there, at least.

Bravo! Enthusiastically thirded.

Also: Clarence Henry - Ain't Got No Home, Russ Columbo - Guilty, and Lance Percival - Shame And Scandal

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

The Nugrape Twins "I Got Your Ice Cold NuGrape" a soda pop jingle from 1926. So great.
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, November 20, 2005

100% otm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRGXvfSu3s

― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)

This single by Ronny :

http://youtu.be/Pvw5Zcd19sg

I have the other one on vinyl, it's fantastic that thanks to YouTube I don't have to take my chances with the 12" at gay thrift stores.

― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Sunday, 24 November 2013 21:13 (twelve years ago)

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